The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-14

an acute agrlculturist.
Feeding bran to horses prevents them
from becoming constipated on dry feed
and grain. Bran is cheap and valuable
feed, especially when the horses are she'd
ing coats in the spring.
There is considerable ground in the
garden that for several months of good
corn weather produces nothing but
weeds, whereas it could be made to af-
ford feed for many pound of thirty
five cent butter in supplementing the
pastures.
1t is said that if eggs are packed with
the small end downward, and in layers,
without touching each other, with plenty
of wheat or corn as a packing material,
they will keep for Matching purposes for
two months.
Sheep multiply fast and returns come
from them quickly. The owner of a
well managed flock has wool TO sell in
the latter rart of spring, lambs in mid
summe rand mutton at other timesof year,
besides supplying his own table.
Eastern dairy men have found it a
good plan to feed fresh skinned milk
and buttermilk together to cows. This
is considered profitable way of utilizing
the skinned milk, only, to render it ef-
fective, the SKINNED milk must not be
too old.
Remember that the greatest enemy
plant can have is another plant of the
same kind growing by its side, as both
feed on the same material. Remove the
weaker plants and leave the stronger.
One good plant will yield more than two
plants under unfavorable conditions.
Turn the plants out of their pots, re-
| duce the balls of earth as much as posi-
BILE, so that all the worms can be picked
out by hand, and then re pot in clean
pots, using fresh compost. To avoid
them do no plunge your plants during
the summer season; always plant them
out.
Shade is indispensable for the raising
of young chicks. Where the mother
hens are allowed free range, one of the
best shades can be formed by plant
ing few pumpkin seeds in hills here
and there. The plants will grow rapidly
and during the hot days both hen and
chickens will take advantage of the
shade given by the broad leaves.
Noplant has greater abundance of
roots than has Indian corn. Prof. Thur
man, of the Alabama Experiment Station,
examined the roots Of a corn plant only
eight inches high from the surface of the
| soil, and radicals were found to occupy
an area of thirty-six square feet. A
number were found to penetrate the sub
soil nine inches below the surface. Corn
is surface root and a surface feeding
plant.
SCOT water is thus prepared: Tie up
one gallon of SCOT in cloth bag, throw it
into a nine-gallon cask of hot water, work
the bag well in the water, which should
stand until clear, when it may be used,
after being diluted with clear water. No
hard-and fast rule can be laid down as to
the strength at which it is safe to use it.
Each one must use his own Judgment,
according to the class and state of the
plant requiring it. One had better use
it too weak than too strong.
Peach growers should engage expert
enced pickers; all should be watched, as
an over-ripe peach will spoil all in the
basket or crate. An experienced picker
knows by the touch or feel whether the
peach is too hard to ripen. by the time it
reaches the consumer, or so soft as to de-
cay on its way to market. Asserting
peaches pays; make them into three
qualities, firsts and seconds to go to
market, and the third to be kept at home
for the pigs or to be dried. Pack hon
estly. Select fine specimens of fruit of
all kinds to exhibit at the county fairs,
severely thinning to give these a chance.
After many years of experimenting, a
correspondent of the Lire Stock Journal
gives utterance to the following conclu-
sions l. Whole potatoes will produce a
crop a week or ten days earlier than those
which are divided. 2. Small potatoes
will produce as good, if not better, re-
suits than large ones. 3. The seed end
is the better one to plant, because it
starts with more vigor and produces more
and larger potatoes. 4. A large piece is
better on ordinary soil than small pieces
or eyes. g. Potatoes with sprouts long
enough to break off in planting are not
so good as those with eyes advanced Just
enough to indicate vigor 6. The form
cannot, as a rule, be changed by planting
in any particular form. Z. Two distinct
varieties won't mix in the same hill. s.
The more we investigate the scab the less
we know about it.
Among the many beautiful flowers
grown from seed sown in early spring,
none is more worthy of admiration than
the mimulus, or as it is commonly
called, monkey flower. The varieties
number among colors white, sulphur,
scarlet and pink. The plant is half
hardy perennial, growing low, rarely
over a foot high and succeeding best
in moist, shady situations. The seed
should be sown early in the spring
and the plant blooms in early summer
A remarkably pretty effect may be pro-
duced by sowing seed of mimulus and
portulaca in adjacent beds. The clear
beauty of the portulaca forms remark
contrast to the spotted flowers of the
mimulus. Our flower lovers are
gradually drifting back to the culture of
the old favorite ANIMALS, biennials and
perennials and find as much pleasure in
their culture as with rare kinds which
are usually difficult to grow.
Professor Lazenby, of Columbus, Ohio,
approves of soft soap wash for trees.
lie says:-"I am acquainted with an
orchard of fifteen apple trees, now
twenty-six years old, that has been
regularly and Systematically treated to a
wash of soft soap about Nav 20 and